The In the Line of Duty series is a long running Hong Kong female cop franchise. It began with Michelle Yeoh but continued even more prolifically with Cynthia Khan. Like the Tiger Cage movies released last week, In the Line of Duty films add martial arts and Hong Kong stunts to fairly generic cop dramas, […]
When New Line finally released Rumble in the Bronx in 1996, it was the first I’d really heard of Jackie Chan. Once I saw it, I scrambled to find more. Luckily, Tower Video had a few imports, but mostly I was stuck with his previous two American releases, and some of the cheap Lo Wei […]
“Knockabout” is the latest Hong Kong martial arts extravaganza Arrow gave a Blu-ray special edition. The fun film holds up and the bonus features are informative.
Sammo Hung’s “Millionaire’s Express” comes to Blu-ray in a beautiful transfer from MVD, with four different cuts and loaded with extras.
The “Ip Man” movies look better and better in 4K as the sequels progress but they’re all great martial arts movies.
The 1997 Mark Dacascos vehicle “Drive” looks great on 4K UHD as he kicks around the Hong Kong style martial arts movie.
The most famous flying guillotine movie is Master of the Flying Guillotine, but it’s a whole franchise. In fact, it’s a shared universe as Master pitted the One-armed boxer against the Flying Guillotine. Flying Guillotine 2 is now on Blu-ray from Arrow. Now there’s a whole army of Flying Guillotines so it’s like the Aliens […]
When I fell in love with Hong Kong cinema in the ‘90s, I saw the Dragon Inn remake with Donnie Yen. Now thanks to the Criterion Collection I can dig deeper into Chinese cinema with the Taiwanese original, and only my second King Hu film after Come Drink With Me. They were already starting to […]
Jackie Chan was a martial arts legend around the world before Rumble in the Bronx made him one in the U.S. too. But it was his animated show, Jackie Chan Adventures, that made him a hero to children. The show ran from 2000-2005 but at the press conference for The LEGO Ninjago Movie (Chan plays […]
The LEGO Movie briefly touched on all the different LEGO worlds that are available for kids to build. The LEGO Ninjago Movie is a whole world set on the island of Ninjago, with Master Wu (Jackie Chan) leading the six ninjas to defeat Garmadon (Justin Theroux). Charlie Bean makes his feature film debut directing The […]